As for how it went... . Barring the occasional awkward pause and nervously bouncing leg, I think we clicked as well as we had over IM and the phone for the past week. All day I had wondered... if we would hit it off live... if our online personalities were accurate enough for neither of us to be disappointed... and if, after finally meeting each other, we would shake hands, hug, or kiss goodnight.

We hugged. And it was amazing - the best hug I have ever had, and better than any first-date kiss could ever hope to be. It was... perfect.

Now, I don't like wearing a watch, so I don't own one, which meant that, without my cell phone, I was also without a timepiece on my way to the train station today. This resulted in an inability to check the minute at any moment and speculate as to whether or not I'd catch my express train. I never could have predicted how freeing this would feel. Finding myself with no other choice again, I sat back and appreciated my effective inability to worry. I pondered how life would be if we needn't live by the clock. My conclusion: what a delightfully primitive idea!

I don't know about you, but, from my past experience, the McFlurry is one of the most delay-inducing items on the McDonald's menu. Unless the poster was up to announce a revolutionary new McFlurry Mixing Machine (the M3), I wouldn't bank on a McFlurry relieving me of any hurry-induced stress.

But wait, there's more. The poster featured an ogre-sized depiction of a single item: the "Classic" Oreo McFlurry. The Classic Oreo McF-WHAT?!? The only thing classic about the Oreo McFlurry is that people have crushed cookies into ice cream since the first day the two earless food products found themselves within earshot of each other! (And you wondered why I mentioned their lack of ears - Ha!) I'm sure it was in a pristine garden somewhere - perhaps the garden of Eden - and I'm even more sure that their union did NOT involve a clown named Ronald. The clown's name was n, who we should thank for the classic ice cream flavor, Cookies n' Cream.